Newsletter #70

An assessment of numeracy in Brazil: a NeuroMat op-ed

by Fernando Jorge da Paixão


The international assessment made in 2018, promoted by the OECD, PISA, was widely disseminated in December 2019. It is a three-year exam that consists of three subjects, reading, mathematics and science. 600,000 15-year-old participated, chosen as a sample representing the 32 million students from the 79 countries participating in the test.

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Last NeuroMat scientific publications

• Iara Frondana, Rodrigo R.S. Carvalho, Florencia Leonardi (2019). Conductance-based models and the fragmentation problem: A case study based on hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell models and epilepsy. sciencedirect. DOI 10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.106841.

• André, Najman, Romaro, (2019). A Numerical Study of the Time of Extinction in a Class of Systems of Spiking Neurons. arXiv.org. 1911.02609

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NeuroMat in the media

• NES is the subject of an article on Open Knowledge Foundation. Neuroscience Experiments System Frictionless Tool. Lilly Winfree. Open Knowledge Foundation, 2019.

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